posted at 10:16 pm on June 22, 2012 by Ed Morrissey

A jury deliberated into the night Friday the fate of Jerry Sandusky, even as the former Penn State assistant football coach’s lawyer said he might “die of a heart attack” in shock if his client is acquitted on all 48 counts related to child sexual abuse.

Joe Amendola made the comments while surrounded by a pack of reporters early Friday evening in the Centre County courtroom. One asked the lawyer — who also talked about the “daunting” challenge of defending Sandusky — if he would be “shocked” if his client was cleared on all charges.

Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was found guilty on Friday night on 45 of 48 counts related to sexual abuse of boys over a 15-year period.

Jurors delivered the verdict around 10 p.m. after deliberating for about 21 hours.

That’s just under a half-hour on each guilty count. Doesn’t sound like the jury had any doubts, only a horribly large workload. Sandusky’s bail was immediately revoked and he went straight into custody, and it’s doubtful that he will ever breathe free air again.

Update II: Sentencing will take place at some undetermined point in the future:

Sandusky will be sentenced at a later date by Judge John Cleland. The precise number of years he faces in prison is unclear, but legal experts say it should be enough to lock the 68-year-old away for life. …

The state presented an overwhelming case against Sandusky. It was highlighted by powerful personal testimony from eight victims who detailed, often through sobs and gasps of breath, how Sandusky molested them in Penn State locker rooms, Sandusky’s basement and hotel rooms.

Sandusky often used his access to Penn State facilities and the football program to lure pre-adolescents into situations where they were alone and the kids were vulnerable.

If he gets less than 40 years, I’d be shocked.

Update III: I changed the front page picture to the one of Sandusky being taken to prison.

Are you sure you know the definition of a “strawman”? It’s not me who comingled gays and pedophiles into the same group. you didn’t answer a single question I posted, so I’ll take it you don’t want to…and that’s fine.

You did link a source…I’ll credit you for that. Normally at this point, if I even do get a link it’s to a Fundamentalist Christian website or some other blatantly partisan numbers. But in case you haven’t noticed, there are tons of studies done each year by one group or another, and they all show different numbers and research…and not by just a little either.

I’ve got to digest some more info on that IASR you linked to…there seem to be quite a lot of things going on. So in that, thank you for that link, one can’t make informed decisions or beliefs if one shuts out personally conflicting viewpoints.

Some people in this world will always be clueless other people’s joys and sorrows. Sandusky is one of those. A selfish person, lacking empathy for the pain he caused his victims.

Paul-Cincy on June 23, 2012 at 9:59 AM

It is a struggle to not wish for the absolute worse that fate can offer to him. When you think of just the harm he has done to all of those kids it is enough, but then to see the ripple of effect to their families and then the people he worked for and the school. That he can even hold his head up when they’re taking his picture. That he was even able to talk on camera.

It really is just mind-numbing for someone who grew up in the area and looked to the Penn State football team as heroes.

Pedophilia and homosexuality have nothing to do with each other. It is a shame that some chioise to use such a stoey to push their anti-gay agenda.

As for Penn State, some serious investigations need to take place. It is shocking that people would cover up so much over a football program (as great as it may be). SeriouSs lack of priorities there. So sick and wrong

BELLEFONTE, PA (RNN) – The attorney for Jerry Sandusky said the former Penn State football coach has been placed on suicide watch following a guilty verdict in the child sexual abuse trial.

On Saturday, defense attorney Joe Amendola said his client had been placed in a separate area from other inmates for his own safety, according to CNN. Authorities plan to keep him there until he is sentenced.

Sandusky, 68, left the courthouse in handcuffs late Friday after a jury found him guilty on 45 counts in a scandal that shocked the university community and the nation.

As he was placed in the back of a police car, Sandusky refused to answer when asked if he had anything to say to the victims, CNN reported.

Defense co-council Karl Rominger made clear they planned to appeal the case. According to CNN, Rominger said there were rulings on “unique legal issues” that could be overturned.

The defense team for Sandusky said the verdict was “the expected outcome because of the overwhelming evidence.”.

“I believe the jury acted genuinely, I believe the jury acted in good faith, I believe the jury acted on the evidence presented to it,” Amendola said.

The verdict came after more than 20 hours of deliberations that began Thursday after each side gave its closing arguments.

The prosecution attempted to paint Sandusky as a predator who earned the trust of his alleged victims before taking advantage of them.

“What you should do is come out and say to the defendant that he molested and abused and give them back their souls,” Senior Deputy Attorney General Joe McGettigan III said to the jury during closing arguments Thursday. “I give them to you. Acknowledge and give them justice.”

The number of charges originally stood at 52, but Judge John Cleland ordered Thursday that all three charges related to “alleged victim 4” be dropped. Cleland explained that one count of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse duplicated another charge, and the testimony did not support the other charges of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and aggravated indecent assault.
(More….)

OmahaConservative:Anytime,its still pouring in,can you believe,
Sandusky was still twittering.I postd his twitter
above,ahem,check it out,unreal,his other Twitter
has Coach added to it,but heres the other!:)

ALSO BY Definition: Pedophilia is sex, or sexual activity, with children who have not yet reached puberty.

All the victims here had reached puberty. It was gay sex. – BigSven on June 23, 2012 at 12:11 PM

The Gay agenda will go berserk at this suggestion. All the victims were male. Sandusky was male. It was male on male. – SparkPlug on June 23, 2012 at 12:41 PM

I am gay. I am not going berserk. Do you see any gays rights groups protesting his sentence? Roman Polanski has yet to serve out his sentence. Sandusky is a monster. A molester of teenage boys. Let him rot in jail.

aOh, I am not that bothered by your lies. In fact, I ould love to give some of the anti-gay crowd huge megaphones so that they can spew the idea that this has anything to do with homosexuality instead of rape or molestation. Every time such nonsense is spewed it just helps the gay rights side out even more, so please do keep I t up.

That being said, I think the institutional failure of all those around the Penn State football program, Penn State admin, Sandusky’s wife, his charity, the police, to stop this may, have been a bigger crime.

I can not help but think that things were overlooked, swept under the rug so that wins could be compiled, I question the timing of the grand jury indictment coming after the record for most wins by a coach was broken, what happened to the DA that went “missing” while investigating this? What sane person thinks it is more human to cover up the accusations than to report them to the police?

I get the feeling that the community around Penn State football has known for years, but did not want to bring anything to light until after the win record was broken. I don’t think they (Penn State football) understood how meaningless the record would be to the rest of the world, in light of what was overlooked.

I understand the want and need to create a “winning” culture around any program, sports, business, whatever, but at what expense. Some times when we are so submersed in whatever goal we are trying to achieve we lose touch with reality, I find it helps see if what you are doing passes the say it out loud test.” We hired a new strength and conditioning coach to revamp our offseason work out schedule so the players will start the season in better shape” – reasonable. “We don’t want to bring negative attention to our football program before we break the all time win record, so we are going to overlook the grown man raping boys in our shower” – not only unreasonable, but you need to do better at life.

I hope that DA is not done, I hope that Penn State has to answer hard questions, I hope that Sandusky has some roommates that helped cover for him for all these years

ALSO BY Definition: Pedophilia is sex, or sexual activity, with children who have not yet reached puberty.

All the victims here had reached puberty. It was gay sex. – BigSven on June 23, 2012 at 12:11 PM

Cripes on a crutch…or, as my Great-Grandmother used to say in a heave Irish brogue, Jesus Mary and Joseph!…That really is the silliest reasoning I’ve seen in a while. The definitions of what a pedophile is tend to be “An adult who is sexually attracted to children”. Pedophiles do not need to ever have had physical relations with a child.

As for the “puberty” question…again, most definitions I’ve seen of pedophile say nothing about puberty per se…they just say “child” or sometimes “young child”, which is a bit vague…I myself would assume a “child” to be a kid under the age of 18.

ALSO BY Definition: Pedophilia is sex, or sexual activity, with children who have not yet reached puberty.

All the victims here had reached puberty. It was gay sex.

BigSven on June 23, 2012 at 12:11 PM

No, it wasn’t. If you want to be strict about definitions, then fine, it was not pedophilia. It was hebephilia. Not gay sex.

Straight and gay sex happens between adults. It does not happen with children. Sex with children is child rape(either pedophilia, hebephilia, or ephebophilia, if you want to be literal) and if you’re so obsessed with your disgust for homosexuality that you want to equate them with the lowest rung of criminals imaginable, you’re demented.

ALSO BY Definition: Pedophilia is sex, or sexual activity, with children who have not yet reached puberty.

All the victims here had reached puberty. It was gay sex. – BigSven on June 23, 2012 at 12:11 PM

The Gay agenda will go berserk at this suggestion. All the victims were male. Sandusky was male. It was male on male. – SparkPlug on June 23, 2012 at 12:41 PM

I am gay. I am not going berserk. Do you see any gays rights groups protesting his sentence? Roman Polanski has yet to serve out his sentence. Sandusky is a monster. A molester of teenage boys. Let him rot in jail.

SC.Charlie on June 23, 2012 at 1:33 PM

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ITA with SC…Sandusky is a monster who should rot in prison…do you really want to quibble about whether the kids were too old for this to be considered pedophelia? What if he had been r*ping teenage girls in the shower?! He’s still a sick, predatory bastard. It was obviously against their will, and these boys were NOT ADULTS. Also, please point to the “gay agenda” that is ready to riot in the streets for their poor comrade Jerry Sandusky…do you actually know any gay men? All the gay men I’m friends with, along with my brother in law, are overjoyed that Sandusky was found guilty, and wish for him to suffer badly in prison…

No, it wasn’t. If you want to be strict about definitions, then fine, it was not pedophilia. It was hebephilia. Not gay sex.
MadisonConservative on June 23, 2012 at 3:37 PM

Maybe, maybe not. A Matter of terminology. If gay means a “same sex” activity then it was gay. If gay refers to the perps sexual orientation then it is unclear. (BUT for SURE it was “Male on Male”.

Read on below little grasshopper and learn something:

Ref: “Thus, not all child sexual abuse is perpetrated by pedophiles (or hebephiles) and not all pedophiles and hebephiles actually commit abuse. Consequently, it is important to use terminology carefully.

Another problem related to terminology arises because sexual abuse of male children by adult men is often referred to as “homosexual molestation.” The adjective “homosexual” (or “heterosexual” when a man abuses a female child) refers to the victim’s gender in relation to that of the perpetrator. Unfortunately, people sometimes mistakenly interpret it as referring to the perpetrator’s sexual orientation.

To avoid this confusion, it is preferable to refer to men’s sexual abuse of boys with the more accurate label of male-male molestation. Similarly, it is preferable to refer to men’s abuse of girls as male-female molestation. These labels are more accurate because they describe the sex of the individuals involved but don’t implicitly convey unwarranted assumptions about the perpetrator’s sexual orientation.

I know you anti-Catholics enjoy it so but you are far more likely to be abused by a teacher (100 times more likely) than by a priest but why should that stand in the way of your spin?

10,667 young people were sexually mistreated by priests between 1950 and 2002. In contrast, the extrapolates from a national survey conducted for the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation in 2000 that roughly 290,000 students experienced some sort of physical sexual abuse by a public school employee between 1991 and 2000.

The figures suggest “the physical sexual abuse of students in schools is likely more than 100 times the abuse by priests,” said Shakshaft, according to Education Week.

Indeed, more than 4.5 million students are subject to sexual misconduct by an employee of a school sometime between kindergarden and 12th grade, says the repo

I am a Penn State grad. I wore my alumni hat today on my errands for one reason. To show my pride of the school and it’s students and athletes. I am glad Sandusky was found guilty. You who so are so ultimately hypocritical moralists who wish me and my kind ill… can go to hell for all I care. The courts have answered and well so may I say.

BELLEFONTE, PA (RNN) – The attorney for Jerry Sandusky said the former Penn State football coach has been placed on suicide watch following a guilty verdict in the child sexual abuse trial.
canopfor on June 23, 2012 at 12:12 PM

canopfor I always appreciate your posts. Thanks. They don’t have him on suicide watch because he’s suicidal, it’s because they can’t put him in general population. Honor among thieves and all that.

Can we all agree that his enablers should face charges? Or, is Penn State football so sacred they shouldn’t be facing charges? I’m no attorney, but to myself it appears that there was a coverup of Sandusky’s activity. And, that coverup should be considered criminal in my opinion.

So the guy in Texas that the father caught raping his daughter and killed? Was he killing a heterosexual molester?

Funny. I don’t seem to recall you or any of your ilk ever referring to him as such. You only attach homosexuality to child rape, never heterosexuality.

How convenient, I must say!

MadisonConservative on June 23, 2012 at 3:37 PM

Sandusky’s orientation is pertinent because homosexuals are far more likely to molest kids than heterosexuals:

•A year 2000 study in the Archives of Sexual Behavior found that”. . . all but 9 of the 48 homosexual men preferred the youngest two male age categories” for sexual activity;’ These age categories were fifteen and twenty years old.
•Yet another recent study in the Archives of Sexual Behavior found that “Pedophilia appears to have a greater than chance association with two other statistically infrequent phenomena. The first of these is homosexuality . . . Recent surveys estimate the prevalence of homosexuality, among men attracted to adults, in the neighborhood of 2%. In contrast, the prevalence of homosexuality among pedophiles may be as high as 30-40%.”
•A 1989 study in the Journal of Sex Research noted that ” . . . the proportion of sex offenders against male children among homosexual men is substantially larger than the proportion of sex offenders against female children among heterosexual men . . . the development of pedophilia is more closely linked with homosexuality than with heterosexuality.”
•A 1988 study of 229 convicted child molesters published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior found that 86% of pedophiles described themselves as homosexual or bisexual.
•In a 1984 Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy article, sex researchers found that “The proportional prevalence of [male] offenders against male children in this group of 457 offenders against children was 36 percent.”
•Homosexual activists Karla Jay and Allen Young revealed in their 1979 Gay Report that 73% of all homosexuals have acted as “chicken hawks” – that is, they have preyed on adolescent or younger boys.
•In a 1992 study published in the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, sex researchers K. Freud and R. I. Watson found that homosexual males are three times more likely than straight men to engage in pedophilia, and that the average pedophile victimizes between 20 and 150 boys before being arrested.12
•A study by sex researchers Alan Bell and Martin Weinberg found that 25% of white homosexual men have had sex with boys sixteen years and younger.

Sadly, we don’t see you here as much as we used to. It seems like (& I may be wrong) you only show up on threads having to do with homosexuality. Like this thread.

homosexuals are far more likely to molest kids than heterosexuals:

It’s completely obvious that I’m not saying otherwise, but I have to spell it out clearly to prevent hyperventialing:
Of course the majority of homosexuals are as repelsed by Sandusky as anyone else is.

•A year 2000 study in the Archives of Sexual Behavior found that”. . . all but 9 of the 48 homosexual men preferred the youngest two male age categories” for sexual activity;’ These age categories were fifteen and twenty years old.
•Yet another recent study in the Archives of Sexual Behavior found that “Pedophilia appears to have a greater than chance association with two other statistically infrequent phenomena. The first of these is homosexuality . . . Recent surveys estimate the prevalence of homosexuality, among men attracted to adults, in the neighborhood of 2%. In contrast, the prevalence of homosexuality among pedophiles may be as high as 30-40%.”
•A 1989 study in the Journal of Sex Research noted that ” . . . the proportion of sex offenders against male children among homosexual men is substantially larger than the proportion of sex offenders against female children among heterosexual men . . . the development of pedophilia is more closely linked with homosexuality than with heterosexuality.”
•A 1988 study of 229 convicted child molesters published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior found that 86% of pedophiles described themselves as homosexual or bisexual.
•In a 1984 Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy article, sex researchers found that “The proportional prevalence of [male] offenders against male children in this group of 457 offenders against children was 36 percent.”
•Homosexual activists Karla Jay and Allen Young revealed in their 1979 Gay Report that 73% of all homosexuals have acted as “chicken hawks” – that is, they have preyed on adolescent or younger boys.
•In a 1992 study published in the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, sex researchers K. Freud and R. I. Watson found that homosexual males are three times more likely than straight men to engage in pedophilia, and that the average pedophile victimizes between 20 and 150 boys before being arrested.12
•A study by sex researchers Alan Bell and Martin Weinberg found that 25% of white homosexual men have had sex with boys sixteen years and younger. – itsnotaboutme on June 23, 2012 at 10:16 PM

I admit that you seem to have complied a damning list of studies, which I have no idea if they are credible or not. My guess is most of it is pure junk. Sorry but, I have to go now and do some recruiting and molesting during the next week. You know I have my quota to fill.

The following is for itsnotaboutme to read and and attempt to comprehend:

General Note:

The American Psychological Association, the National Association of Social Workers, the American Academy of Child Psychiatrists and the Child Welfare League of America all have policy statements stating there is no correlation between homosexuality and child abuse.

When asked about this question, the American Psychiatric Association wrote to the Senate stating: “While we are all concerned by the issu of sexual abuse, there is no credible evidence that lesbians and gay men are more likely to commit such offenses than others. Gay men and lesbians do not pose any particular threat to youth and should not be singled out or discriminated against in any manner.http://www.pflag-nb….olic/abuse.html

“Mental health professionals agree that pedophilia should never be considered normal, because it is truly a disease. None of the things that make homosexuality a normal variation of human sexuality apply to pedophilia.”
– Martin Downs, WebMD Medical News

“There is no medical evidence to suggest an association between homosexuality and impaired moral judgment.”
– Journal of the American Medical Association – Pediatric Forum, March 2001

“It is ludicrous to identify pedophiles as homosexuals.”
– Stan Robson, Chief Deputy, Benton County Sheriffs Department
(In over 14 years of Robson’s work with pedophiles, 498 out of 500 offenders identified themselves as heterosexual.)

“The belief that homosexuals are particularly attracted to children is completely unsupported by our data. The child offenders who engaged in adult relationships as well, were heterosexuals. There were no homosexual adult oriented offenders in our samples who turned to children.”
– A. Nicholas Groth, Ph.D., Director of the Sex Offender Program, Connecticut Department of Corrections, and Co-Director of the St. Joseph College Institute for the Treatment and Control of Child Sexual Abuse

“The empirical research does not show that gay or bisexual men are any more likely than heterosexual men to molest children. This is not to argue that homosexual and bisexual men never molest children. But there is no scientific basis for asserting that they are more likely than heterosexual men to do so. And, as explained above, many child molesters cannot be characterized as having an adult sexual orientation at all; they are fixated on children.”
-Dept. of Psychology, UC Davis

“Another myth about homosexuality is the mistaken belief that gay men have more of a tendency than heterosexual men to sexually molest children. There is no evidence to suggest that homosexuals are more likely than heterosexuals to molest children.”
– American Psychological Association

Seriously, you listed a bunch of politically correct opinions from the left-wing American Psychological Association, & I listed a bunch of statistics. – itsnotaboutme on June 24, 2012 at 8:01 AM

Stop trying to pathetically attempting discredit the APA as a source. It is your opinion that they are left wing. Your list was I guess pulled from some right wing anti-gay website. Most of your studies only say that they are “a study”. And, a number of the ones that you do name the people who made the studies say that your interpretation of their studies are incorrect.

Keep up the good work on trying to demonize gay men. It’s been done for eons with the help of religion and other forces. I am sure that you are going to get a lot of pats on your back from people who think that gay men are all sick, sinners who are going to hell. My guess that you still believe that homosexuality should be listed as a mental disorder and that same-sex acts between consenting adults should be outlawed.

I guess you don’t understand that the vast majority of men who commit pedophilia acts upon male children are not homosexual but are heterosexual. Again, the Sandusky case has nothing to do with pedophilia. I hope that Sandusky rots in jail for his crimes and that the prosecutor pursues his enablers at Penn State or wherever they might be.

I don’t believe all homosexuals are child molesters and the like, but one possible reason we don’t see the media mention or report studies of sexual crimes by homosexuals as often (and other acts or crime and violence) is that it’s not politically correct to do so, because the militant ones have a vested interest in making all homosexuals appear as a victim class.

I have read studies that there are higher rates of pedophilia among homosexuals than straights, and a higher percentage of serial killers are homosexuals than are heterosexuals.

I’ve read articles that some homosexual groups (the militants who like to march in parades, who are vocal about their sexuality) don’t let NAMBLA (a pro child molester group) into their “gay/ pride parades” any longer, not because they are repulsed by grown people wanting sex with children, but they were concerned it would bring them bad public relations.

I think we are only permitted 2 to 3 links per post (otherwise a post goes to moderation queue), so I hesitate to put too many links in any one post.

This page is hosted by a Christian site but some of the sources they quote are secular.

Here is one excerpt from that page:

Child molestation and pedophilia occur far more commonly among homosexuals than among heterosexuals on a per capita basis, according to a new study. In her thesis – also written for the Regent University Law Review – Doctor Judith Reisman cited psychologist Eugene Abel, whose research found that homosexuals “sexually molest young boys with an incidence that is occurring from five times greater than the molestation of girls. …”

Abel also found that non-incarcerated “child molesters admitted from 23.4 to 281.7 acts per offender … whose targets were males.”

Justice Served In Jesse Dirkhising Murder Case
(story originally appeared at traditionalvalues.org, now is on other sites such as this one)

WASHINGTON, DC — “The conviction of homosexual sadist Joshua Brown for the torture, rape, and murder of 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising, is a relief to those of us in the pro-family community,” said Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, Chairman of Traditional Values Coalition. “Brown has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for raping Jesse, but still faces life in prison on the murder charge.”

…A report in the Washington Times on March 23, 2001, indicates that none of the major networks, except Fox, have covered the Dirkhising murder trial. The New York Times, Washington Post, and USA Today have also neglected to cover this story.

And, TigerPaw you forget to mention the travesty of the massive coverup of Sandusky’s behavior that went on for years at Penn State by the heterosexual authorities at Penn State and in the vicinity. Your great Judith Riesman according to Wikipidia believes the following, “Reisman has said that she believes that a homosexual movement in Germany gave rise to the Nazi Party and the Holocaust, she endorses The Pink Swastika, which elaborates on this view and has compared modern youth groups for gays to the Hitler Youth.[1]”

Yep, Judith Riesman believes the book The Pink Swastika is credible. And that Nazism was a homosexual movement. The book is laughed at by credible historians the world over. The book is promoted by far right anti-gay groups.

Total fallacy. Your assumption presupposes that all incidences were with a unique man and a unique child. You’re not considering at all the possibility that males who molest boys may molest many of them(how many boys did Sandusky rape?). There is also the possibility that males who molest girls may molest many of them. Without actual numbers of perpetrators and their respective number of victims, your conclusion is complete and utter bulls**t based on incomplete information.

Not particularly surprising. This isn’t the first time you stained this site with your disgusting attempts to equate homosexuality with pedophilia. You already showed that one minute you care about actual labels(such as pedophilia), and that the next you don’t(hebephilia) because you’re about as intellectually deep as a saucer, and your conclusions are based on what you want to believe, not any evidence.

Therefore, while most male homosexuals would never molest a kid, male homosexuals are statistically more likely to be or to become child molesters than heterosexual males.

itsnotaboutme on June 24, 2012 at 8:01 AM

This isn’t the first time you stained this site with…

MadisonConservative on June 24, 2012 at 9:48 PM

…Your hysterical rants & false accusations.

All of the “Indisputable facts” stand.

Since you apparently didn’t see it:

•A year 2000 study in the Archives of Sexual Behavior found that”. . . all but 9 of the 48 homosexual men preferred the youngest two male age categories” for sexual activity;’ These age categories were fifteen and twenty years old.
•Yet another recent study in the Archives of Sexual Behavior found that “Pedophilia appears to have a greater than chance association with two other statistically infrequent phenomena. The first of these is homosexuality . . . Recent surveys estimate the prevalence of homosexuality, among men attracted to adults, in the neighborhood of 2%. In contrast, the prevalence of homosexuality among pedophiles may be as high as 30-40%.”
•A 1989 study in the Journal of Sex Research noted that ” . . . the proportion of sex offenders against male children among homosexual men is substantially larger than the proportion of sex offenders against female children among heterosexual men . . . the development of pedophilia is more closely linked with homosexuality than with heterosexuality.”
•A 1988 study of 229 convicted child molesters published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior found that 86% of pedophiles described themselves as homosexual or bisexual.
•In a 1984 Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy article, sex researchers found that “The proportional prevalence of [male] offenders against male children in this group of 457 offenders against children was 36 percent.”
•Homosexual activists Karla Jay and Allen Young revealed in their 1979 Gay Report that 73% of all homosexuals have acted as “chicken hawks” – that is, they have preyed on adolescent or younger boys.
•In a 1992 study published in the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, sex researchers K. Freud and R. I. Watson found that homosexual males are three times more likely than straight men to engage in pedophilia, and that the average pedophile victimizes between 20 and 150 boys before being arrested.12
•A study by sex researchers Alan Bell and Martin Weinberg found that 25% of white homosexual men have had sex with boys sixteen years and younger.

I am gay. I am not going berserk. Do you see any gays rights groups protesting his sentence? Roman Polanski has yet to serve out his sentence. Sandusky is a monster. A molester of teenage boys. Let him rot in jail.

SC.Charlie on June 23, 2012 at 1:33 PM

Fair points all.

FWIW, I am sorry to say, the one molester I have personal knowledge of molested boys and girls about equally. (Sadly, he is neither in jail nor dead.)

I favor the death penalty for any adult who can be proved to have had s*x with a child under 14, and life in prison without parole for any adult who can be proved to have done so with a youth of 14-17 who did not give consent. (Trying to rule out the case of the 18-year-old and the 17-year-old who get carried away on prom night — I think that should be handled differently.)

itsnotaboutme, your post on/at June 25, 2012 at 1:01 PM a repeat from one of your early posts. You dismiss what the our medical professionals have say about the subject by calling them liberals. You even cite Judith Reisman who believes that the book “The Pink Swastika” is a factual. The only people who read this book and believe it are the unhinged anti-gay right fringe groups.